AGAG ā’ găg (אֲגַג׃֙, perhaps high or warlike). A name or perhaps a title like Pharaoh belonging to an Amalekite king; one mentioned by Balaam in Numbers 24:7 and another by Saul in 1 Samuel 15:8, 9, 20, 32, 33. It appears that Haman was surnamed Agag also (Esth 3:1, et passim). The etymological meaning of the word is usually taken from Akkad. agāgum, “to get angry, furious.” M. Astour has recently pointed to the Gr. name Ogygos as being a Sem. name derived from ’āgag, “to flame” (“Greek and Semitic Names,” JNES, XXIII [1964], p. 200.) Nothing is certain in these meanings. The name appears in Phoenician and Punic texts.